Julia Tershen News Today

Presenting the new Hudson Valley cookbook canon, with eight recipe books released by local authors in the past year.

Dear Prudence, My husband’s parents have always been on the fringe end of conservative, but it’s never caused an issue with us, because we don’t live nearby and only see them once every two years or so. But in the past few years, they’ve become even more counterculture—they’re very into QAnon and other conspiracy theories, they’ve become openly racist, and they hate masks and vaccines. Recently, I found out that they’ve embraced Holocaust denial. I don’t know why this was the ...

If there are cuisines of which we are woefully uncultivated, they are surely African ones. (Ten Speed Press), written with best-selling cookbook author Julia Turshen. Hassan has gathered stories along with 75 recipes from bibis (grandmothers) from eight African nations: South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia, and Eritrea. You can’t help but be touched by the personal stories and soulful recipes, which might otherwise go unrecorded and be lost for all time. T...